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...song lacks lyrics entirely, the spirit of the city comes through all the same. George Gershwin?s instrumental piece "Rhapsody in Blue" doesn?t have to mention Manhattan to evoke the city?s soul. The opening clarinet winds its way up like morning light hitting an apartment building, the brass instruments sound like crosstown traffic. Saxophonist John Coltrane?s "Central Park West" also wordlessly captures the moody allure of the streets and sidewalks...
From then on, the album gets more complex. The best expression of Ozo’s no-passport-needed, pan-global style is the groovy “1234,” on which De La Soul slides in perfectly amongst the brass stabs and chunky guitar. The rhythm section has to rein in their polyrhythmic tendencies a little, but the momentum is great. At times Ozo sound, to their credit, a bit like a sublimely rejuvenated and bass-heavy Buena Vista Social Club, with lugubrious vocal lines even in the midst of relentlessly upbeat songs like...
Many ISI men harbor bitterness too, over the way the U.S. built them up as a useful tool in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, then turned away when the war ended. A sizable portion of ISI rank and file embraces Islamic fundamentalism, and even if the top brass promise help, spooks on the ground may thwart them by withholding information or spreading disinformation. "The ISI has excellent intelligence about bin Laden," says a former Defense specialist on the region. "I find it doubtful they will give...
...anti-American protests in Pakistan, but these were predicted and have not assumed dimensions that would threaten the stability of General Musharraf's regime. The general has also moved preemptively, placing a number of key Islamist leaders under house arrests and purging Taliban sympathizers from the military's top brass; Yasser Arafat's police found themselves playing a role usually reserved for their Israeli counterparts, putting down an anti-American demonstration in Gaza and killing three Palestinians. Arafat appears to have gambled that the diplomatic gains from ingratiating himself with the U.S. outweigh the danger posed by Palestinian anger...
...which runs the military's most secretive units. The special forces--including the 800-strong Delta Force, Navy SEALS, and Army and Air Force commandos--are likely to be central to the first phase of the war. Special forces always have a hard time getting the attention of the brass leading conventional forces--they operated under very restrictive rules during the Gulf War--and they have had their setbacks. A Delta Force team was chewed up in the streets of Mogadishu in 1993, when it tried to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Aidid. And in Afghanistan, where the terrain is about...